Mighty Oak Brewing Co.

Microbrewery in Maldon, Essex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Mighty Oak Taproom

Established in 1995

Contact
14b West Station Yard, Maldon, CM9 6TW, England
Description
Mighty Oak Brewing Company was founded by John Boyce in Brentwood in Essex in 1995 with brewing commencing in 1996. It moved to the town of Maldon in January 2001, and set up in the West Station Yard industrial area, once a major local industrial area with its own railway branch line to Witham.

The brewery makes mostly ale and exports these throughout Essex, London, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Kent. Many of the brewery's products are available to buy privately in different size plastic bladders up to keg size.

     Show


7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[i] Cask Handpump at Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford 20-12-07 [/i] Chestnut in colour, fierce fruity bite to this beer, malts are present but pushed aside by the crisp bitter fruity bite, lovely!
Tried from Cask on 21 Dec 2007 at 01:45

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Cask at Wenlock Arms, London. An amber beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malthy with notes of caramel and metal, leading to a dry bitter and metallic finish.
Tried from Cask on 02 Dec 2007 at 14:56

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[i] Cask at Oxford Beer Festival 11-10-07 [/i] Pours light golden with nice tight white head. Really fresh citrus hop aroma. Tasted Fresh, hoppy zingy and juicy, this beer had a lovely tanginess to it.
Tried from Cask on 12 Oct 2007 at 01:45

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at Wenlock. Clear copper, lasting beige head. Toffee with faint smoke aroma, may be diacetyl butter hidden in there somewhere. Tasty enough, nice fruit salad fruit comes through. Smoke is more ashtray. A smoked fruity bitter. Fine and in good condition if a bit odd.
Tried from Cask on 18 Sep 2007 at 10:22

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
(Cask at GBBF, London, 9 Aug 2007) Golden yellow colour with green tinges, brief white head. Fruity nose with lemon peel, spicy notes of grassy hops and biscuity malt aromas. Fruity taste with notes of lemon, grapefruit and grassy hops in the finish. Underlying biscuity malt character. Balanced and very fresh.
Tried from Cask on 09 Sep 2007 at 10:04

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
(Cask at GBBF, London, 8 Aug 2007) Dark brown colour with brief pale brown head. Malty nose with roasted notes of coffee, chikory and dark fruit. Roasted taste with wild berries, coffee and a nice coffeeish bitterness in the finish. Thin body, but with more bitterness than most milds. Very tasty mild, one of the better I’ve tried.
Tried from Cask on 07 Sep 2007 at 17:14

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear medium yellow color with a small, virtually none, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, biscuity, moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a short to average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.
Tried from Cask on 05 Sep 2007 at 03:45

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear dark red brown color with a small, virtually none, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.
Tried from Cask on 04 Sep 2007 at 08:41

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask@GBBF2007. Yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is honey, wood, fruity hops and some salty hints. Flavour is quite the same, but has a big bitterness kicking into it.
Tried from Cask on 28 Aug 2007 at 01:32

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask@GBBF2007. Very dark rubyish amber colour with mediumsized brown creamy head. Aroma is igtime roasted malts along with some coffee, fruity hops and slight burnt wood. Flavour is really fruity along with some slight hints of roasted malts with strawish hayness.
Tried from Cask on 27 Aug 2007 at 06:25